ANS banks win with Skipton Building Society

Manchester-based service provider secures three-year contract with building society

ANS Group has announced today it has a won a three-year contract with Skipton Building Society.

The deal will see ANS provide the Yorkshire-based building society with IT services as well as support for its internal IT team, which serves 100 nationwide branches.

Duncan Ratcliffe, head of IT at Skipton, said: "In such a fast-paced industry, flexibility and adaptability are absolutely critical in enabling us to keep innovating, and the hybrid platform strikes the right balance.

"This investment will allow us to react to market needs and demands, and deliver the new services that our customers want, quicker than ever before," he commented.

Andy Barrow, chief technology officer at ANS, said: "In any market as competitive as financial services, innovation is key, and this investment will enable Skipton to be in the strongest possible position to respond to fast-moving and evolving customer demands.

"We knew from the first instance that Skipton's focus was on changing and improving business processes, so we designed an IT solution around those requirements, rather than presenting an off-the-shelf package."

ANS is partnered with the likes of Cisco, Microsoft and VMware. In October ANS claimed to have achieved the highest FlexPod accreditation of any partner.